Scientists claim major cosmic collision to be delayed

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Astronomers have recalculated the moment the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies, currently 2.5 million light years apart, will meet in a cosmic collision that will cause the two to merge together.
The pair, each containing hundreds of billions of stars, will begin to trade ‘glancing blows’ in 4.5 billion years, a prediction pushed back by 600 million years thanks to new data from Europe’s Gaia satellite.
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